Sunday, 18 April 2010

Grounded

However, there is a huge cloud of volcanic ash hovering over the UK and it looks like I will be grounded in Texas a little while longer. Hopefully, the tulips won't be finished before I get home.

School and work will have to wait, and so will my younger daughter's appointment to get a retainer. Thank goodness my older daughter had the foolhardy notion foresight to bring an entire suitcase of GCSE books and materials. Meanwhile, we have the great big silver lining of more time with Texas friends, more Mexican food, and more sun. As we wait, we may have to adopt a semblance of "normal" life -- meaning, time for homework, homecooked meals, and hopefully, a return to the blogworld.

You could be back over here for quite some time Bee. Aren't you lucky!!I am over here until July 5th. I wonder if the cloud will have dispersed by then?Meanwhile you can enjoy the sun, food and friends, can't you!I too am missing the tulips, which I planted in the autumn.Blessings, Star

I was wondering if you had made it back in time, but obviously not! The sun is shining through the bluest, clear sky (what dust cloud). Not a vapour trail in sight.I shall think of you as I start my lonely training (an 8 miler this week) - I need you back to make the hours disappear!

Aren't you lucky! Home, GCSE books and an extended vacation! Just think - you could have been stuck in an airport somewhere. Enjoy the rest of your visit - if the tulips have gone over by the time you return, there are always roses.....

the ash over the pole has created havoc over the entire world. There must be thousands and thousands of travellers delayed. All Qantas flights heading for Europe from Au have been stopped too. You are fortunate that you have a comfortable warm place to extend your trip. I wouldn't like to be stranded mid way somewhere.

Oh, Bee! I had no idea you were stateside. I'm sorry to hear that your plans have been disrupted, but what better place to be stranded than Texas in bluebonnet season? Here's hoping that you and your family continue to enjoy food, friends, and fair weather.

So many of our friends stranded around the world, some rather anxious about their children returning to school after a break, but nothing can be done for a while with the current news. Sincerely wishing you a good extended holiday but a safe and easy return when it happens. all best wishes.

A return to the blogworld would be a welcome thing for both of us, wouldn't it, Bee? It's so frustrating, in a fundamentally creative way, to be separated from writing. I can't wait to see you back in the saddle, but I bet your family have been grateful to have you for an extended stay...

Oh, not easy to be stuck somewhere, even vacation. I'll be thinking of you. I've been slacking in my bloggish neighborliness as school has been more than hectic. Now that I'm back in the swing again, I wanted to stop in and say hello. Happy spring! I hope you get to enjoy your tulips.

The Bee Drunken Manifesto

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.Drunken with what? With margaritas, or wine, with poetry or a good paperback, or with the intoxication of love or friendship, as you will. But be drunken . . . (with apologies to Charles Baudelaire)